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Originally Posted by Redjake
The malls here are the worst for this. It's downright awkward having someone walk up to you in the middle of a busy mall and ask if you are interested in perfume, and they are trained to NEVER take "no" for an answer. They will follow you for 5 or 6 steps and ask again and beg you. ........ ...
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People are too polite.
I say change course when you're walking and either suddenly turn and walk towards the man with a
, maybe get a few friends to do it at different times or kick up a fuss about it. Or! Get a kid to beg to play with the thing until he gives in! He'll let the little dude bash it into someone, just once, that'll get him to think about what he's doing! Either the kid's mistake'll give him second-hand experience of what kind of people he's been messing with, or having a couple customers stare walk straight toward him out of nowhere (like they're in love, or want to give him a verbal ear-boxing) will keep the face flying to a minimum.
I mean, I wouldn't even have the guts to improvise a good enough complaint to get these guys to think about what they're doing. But if I did, a major point would be "do you know how many sales you're LOSING that way!?" suggesting a change of technique. Then maybe a sentence or two to any mall/store workers that're around, tell
them to talk to the manager. To eliminate things getting skewed in transit maybe emphasize with a yell.
Point is we get annoyed by taking crap from salesmen, but for some reason YOU/I don't want to do anything about it. To me it's all social mumbo jumbo, an excuse to lay the unpleasant work on someone else.
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Addendum: Oh, well then I guess if you just can't bear the unpleasantness of it, I can see the justice in that.
Just send your letter in triplicate!